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Norvell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULSA BALLET THEATER INC | $50,000 |
| CHINMAYA MISSION WEST | $31,719 |
| ARSHA-VIDYA-PITAM | $31,719 |
| JOHN 316 MISSION | $25,000 |
| THE PORTLAND BALLET | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA | $25,000 |
| ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S | $25,000 |
| PEARL DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| WILDEARTH GUARDIANS | $5,000 |
| PORTICO DANCE THEATRE - OKLAHOMA MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CARE CENTER FOR AID AND COMFORT | $5,000 |
| KITCHEN ANGELS INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PORTLAND BALLET9× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +9%
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +33%- TBTULSA BALLET THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +71%
Funded once
IRON GATE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -25%- VBVIETNAMESE BUDHIST MEDITATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SISOULFORCE INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vietnamese Budhist Meditation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PORTLAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN 316 MISSION ↗
- Who funds TULSA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Town Hall of Tulsa Corp ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds PEARL DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE BUDHIST MEDITATION ↗
- Who funds CASA Q INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW MEXICO RADIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BKS IYENGAR YOGA NATL ASSN OF USA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Inc · The Whitmire Family Charitable Foundation · Kathleen Patton Westby Foundation · Zink Family Foundation · Judith and Jean Adams Charitable Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Gelvin Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Norvell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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